Audits: N.Y. overpaid $11.4M for Medicaid

$3.8M recovered; providers gave incorrect charges

8:25 PM,
Jul. 9, 2013

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New York overpaid Medicaid providers $11.4 million, two audits by the state Comptroller's Office found.

The state has recovered $3.8 million of the overpayments, which were largely the result of providers overstating reimbursement charges for the government health insurance program that serves mainly poor and disabled people, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Tuesday.

"New York's Medicaid system continues to be rife with waste," he said. "Year after year, my auditors identify the same types of Medicaid errors due to weak controls. (The state Health Department) needs to greatly ...